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US Army Trials Long‑Endurance Tethered Drone with EW Pod

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A tethered unmanned aircraft system (UAS) by TCOM was field-tested during the U.S. Army’s first armored “Transforming in Contact” (TiC) 2.0 combat training center rotation at the National Training Center (NTC), Fort Irwin, on November 3, 2025. The deployment, using the Mastodon Beast+ ground system, was part of Rotation 26‑02 and aimed to evaluate emerging […]

Autonomous Drones Harness Wind for ISR and C-UAS

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– Windlift, a North Carolina-based startup, recently announced successful results from initial testing of a new autonomous tethered drone system that leverages winds aloft for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) and counter-uncrewed aerial systems (C-UAS). Windlift’s new “GUARD” system is a mobile platform that includes a launcher and a tethered drone equipped with a navigation […]

Ukrainian Military Deploys Drones with 20-Km Fibre Optics

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Unmanned systems with a 20-kilometer range are already operating at the front in Ukraine, Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said on April 5. The Ukrainian military continues to expand its use of fiber-optic drones, increasing both their numbers and capabilities, according to Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi. In March, Ukrainian drones destroyed […]

Hoverfly and BlueHalo Partner to Elevate Passive Counter-UAS and Electronic Warfare Technologies

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– Hoverfly Technologies, a supplier of tethered unmanned aerial systems (TeUAS), announced its latest integration partnership with BlueHalo which brings BlueHalo’s Titan-SV passive RF sensing solution onto Hoverfly’s Blue List Certified Spectre TeUAS, augmenting Counter-Unmanned Aerial System (C-UAS) operations with uninterrupted signal detection and threat monitoring. New Weapons for New Warfare “As unmanned technology continues […]

Elistair Gets $3M Contract for Small Tethered UAS from Allied Military Force

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– Elistair, a global supplier of tethered unmanned aerial systems (UAS) for surveillance and reconnaissance, announced that it has been awarded a €3 million contract to supply tethered small UAS to an allied military force. This contract, secured in collaboration with the world-leading robotics and autonomous systems developer Milrem Robotics, involves the delivery of Khronos […]

Windlift’s Drones Set to Transform Wind Energy and Fight Climate Change

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– Windlift, a Durham, N.C.-based startup, is developing autonomous tethered drones that generate electricity by letting the air turn the rotors on its turbine propellers as it swoops through a loopy sideways figure eight pattern, potentially reducing material requirements by 90% compared to traditional wind turbines. One day in early October, a curiously designed drone […]

US Army Picks Hoverfly Tethered Spectre for Variable Height Antenna – Heavy (VHA-H) Program

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After completing rigorous validation and environmental testing, Hoverfly Technologies is able to announce that its award of the U.S. Army Variable Height Antenna – Heavy (VHA-H) program with their Spectre Tethered Unmanned Aerial System (TeUAS). This monumental achievement will see Hoverfly’s Spectre TeUAS deployed across critical operations as an integral part of the Integrated Tactical […]

Jam-Proof Fiber Optic Drone Testing In Ukraine

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German developers are demonstrating a new drone in Ukraine called HCX which is immune to radio -frequency jamming and detection because it communicates with its operator via a fiber-optic cable. Small drones have become ubiquitous in this conflict; Ukraine plans to build more than a million this year. But radio-frequency jamming has also stepped up. In […]

Tethered Drone Extends Line-of-Sight Communications for Surface Platforms

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General Dynamics Mission Systems’ Containerized Tethered Elevated Mast (C-TEM) shipboard tethered unmanned aerial system solution will extend line-of-sight communication for U.S. Navy ships and unmanned surface vessels. General Dynamics Mission Systems is a mission integrator for the Navy’s hybrid fleet of manned and unmanned platforms. The company is partnering with Dragonfly Pictures Inc. (DPI), a […]

Elistair and Rheinmetall Canada Partner on Unmanned ISR Solution for Military Users

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Elistair, a supplier of long-endurance, tethered unmanned aircraft systems, announced that it has partnered with Rheinmetall Canada Inc. to provide military customers with an on-the-move ISR solution that combines Elistair’s fully automated KHRONOS tethered drone with the Mission Master family of unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs). The new partnership follows closely on the heels of a […]